Aidan Moher thinks Terry Brooks saved epic fantasy. "The Sword of Shannara, the debut novel from American novelist Terry Brooks’, was released in 1977 into an SF literary ecosystem that looks very different than it does today: there was no Harry Potter, no Game of Thrones, and Peter Jackson was only just discovering Tolkien’s work as a pubescent teen. Readers were still riding Science Fiction’s new wave, and Fantasy looked like little more than a fading fad in the barren landscape left behind by Frodo’s departure to the Undying Lands." Personally, I think the emergence of D&D probably had more of an effect, but that may just be because I consider Brooks' books to be ridiculously bad knock-offs of Tolkien's stuff.
Check out the first-ever Precious Moments porcelain tribute to Star Trek, the origins of which are already lost to time. The dog has Vulcan ears.
Famous scenes from R-rated films, done in a children's book style by Josh Cooley, an artist at Pixar.
This book is a collection of solutions to common roadblocks in the creative process, with a specific emphasis on solving musical problems, making progress, and (most importantly) finishing what you start. However, it's highly applicable to other creative fields.
Snatch up these retro Cthulhu action figures!
This is what happens when someone makes his own self help books.
With Game of Thrones Monopoly coming, Barnes & Noble has come up with five fantasy series (including The Magicians) that should be board games.
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